An entertaining weekend on the patch - summary below:
3+ Cuckoos (all males) - Salwarpe, Ladywood and Porter's Mill
2 Common Whitethroats - Ladywood and Middleton Bank
5 Willow Warblers - thinly spread - including a mixed singer on Gorsey Bank.
1 Whinchat - Tapenhall
1 Grasshopper Warbler - Mildenham area
5 Wheatears (4 males, 1 female) - Copcut / Middleton Bank
3 Swifts - over Westwood
1 Common Sandpiper - Porter's Mill (canal)
2 Sedge Warblers - Porter's Mill / Mildenham
Several Reed Warblers - Coney and Porter's Mill
2 Lapwings - Middleton Bank
3 Yellowhammers - singing male and female Tapenhall + 1 at Copcut Rise
1 Greylag - over Coney
4+ Gadwall - pair at Tapenhall plus several birds and pairs over Coney
Mixed hirundine flocks
Sparrowhawks
2 Kestrels
Buzzards
2 Ravens
3+ Grey Wagtails
Kingfisher
Grey Herons
several flocks of Linnets
Mistle Thrushes
singing Nuthatch
Goldcrests, Treecreepers, Coal Tits, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers
Stock Doves
Blackcaps and Chiffchaffs
Jays
Bullfinches